French prisoner who escaped in inmate's bag detained
The man was arrested while emerging from a cellar early on Monday in Corbas near Lyon, they said, adding that his fellow prisoner accomplice had not yet been arrested.
The prisoner escaped on Friday. He was serving time for murder as part of a criminal gang and breaching a weapons law.
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